I'm having problems configuring ndiswrapper to work with my Intel PRO/wireless 2200BG card. I'm not sure what the problem is, so I'll explain the process which i followed.
Downloaded ndiswrapper. Compiled.
Downloaded Intel windows driver from linuxant.com
./ndiswrapper -i w22n51.INF
./ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
w22n51 present
./modprobe ndiswrapper
/dmesg
ndiswrapper version 0.7 loaded
ndiswrapper adding w22n51.sys
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:35:14:72:9d using driver w22n51.sys
This is where I get lost.
./iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
Mode:Managed Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF Bit Rate=54Mb/s
RTS thr=1600 B Fragment thr=2304 B
Encryption key
ff
Power Management
ff
Link Quality:0/100 Signal level:24/154 Noise level:0/154
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
when I try ./ifup wlan0 I get the message:
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed.
Any suggestions? Thank you!